Living in China
Living shows furniture, textiles, ornaments and clothing used in the homes of wealthy people between 1000 and 1900.…
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Eating and drinking in China
While people the world over must eat and drink, not many have felt the need to develop such a complex cuisine as th…
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Temple and worship in China
There are three main systems of belief in China: Daoism (sometimes written Taoism), Buddhism and Confucianism.…
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Burial customs in China
The custom of burying grave goods with dead bodies lasted a long time, so the artefacts that remain range from Neol…
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Ruling in China
The Chinese term for the emperor of China was 'Son of Heaven', and he was considered to be the sole link between he…
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Collecting in China
Art-collecting was an exclusively male pursuit in China. A well-to-do gentleman living at the time of the Ming dyna…
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Design for Life
Design for life: a national museum education project
Silver service slavery: the black presence in the white home
Black Britons worked in a variety of professions; as sailors, shopkeepers, artisans, labourers, peddlers and street musicians, amongst others. The biggest employment sector for both white and black populations was domestic service and a large number of black people worked as servants, butlers, valets and other domestic helps.
The Silk Road & the V&A Stein collection
The Silk Road was the collection of routes across Central Asia which connected China and the Far East with the Mediterranean and the Far West. Trade routes through the arid Taklamakan desert in the Tarim Basin had already been utilised by the Shang and Zhou and were fully established under the Han dynasty in the second century BC.
Teachers' resource: Victorian social life from paintings
The V&A is one of the best museums in the world for learning about the Victorians. This resource contains an introduction to some of the Victorian paintings in the V&A and suggests ways of using them as sources of historical evidence.
The Silent Traveller: Chiang Yee in Britain, 1933-1955
23 April – 9 November 2012. This display explores Chinese artist and writer Chiang Yee's (1903-1977) creative endeavours through a selection of original illustrations and sketches from the Silent Traveller series and other books as well as designs and archival material which describe his life and work in Britain.
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Transparent China (Custom print)
Transparent China Tea and Breakfast Services, by The Fenton Pottery Co. (A3 Print, Satin Finish)
Buy nowEvent - Arts of Early China: Neolithic to the Song Dynasty
Mon 24 September 2012 10:30
SHORT COURSE: Discover over 4,000 years of arts in early China.
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